Game thread: Cornell 2 Yale 1 FINAL

Cornell draws an early penalty.



Post Edited (02-14-04 21:13)

Seems that the Yale audio is working.

1-0 Cornell, according to the live stats...

Vesce (Moulson, Hynes)



Post Edited (02-14-04 19:38)

Yale annoucers started out by saying how rude and disrectful the crowd is for yelling "red!!" during the national anthem. Hehehe.

meant "disrespectful"

Rude and disrespectful is what the BC fans in front of me in Providence were when they booed the Big Red band singing O' Canada. I'm not sure why they were even sitting on that side of the Dunk'.

Cornell up 1-0 at the end of the first period.

stats thru 1 period:

Goals  1  Tot  Faceoff                  Shots  1  Tot  P-Plays

YALE   0 -  0    10                     YALE   2 -  2    0-0

CORN   1 -  1    14                     CORN   9 -  9    0-2



Yale                 Sv GA   Min        Cornell              Sv GA   Min

34 Josh Gartner.....  8  1 20:00        31 David McKee......  2  0 19:56

TM TEAM.............  0  0 00:00        TM TEAM.............  0  0 00:04



Yale                 Sh G A P-Min +/-   Cornell              Sh G A P-Min +/-

19 Brad Mills.......  1 0 0  0-0    0    8 Ryan Vesce.......  2 1 0  0-0   +1

 9 Robert Burns.....  1 0 0  0-0    0   24 Matt Moulson.....  1 0 1  0-0   +1

10 Jeff Hristovski..  0 0 0  0-0   -1   28 Shane Hynes......  1 0 1  0-0   +1

11 Ryan Steeves.....  0 0 0  0-0   -1    5 Jon Gleed........  1 0 0  0-0    0

12 Nate Murphy......  0 0 0  1-2    0   15 Daniel Pegoraro..  1 0 0  0-0    0

13 Joe Zappala......  0 0 0  0-0   -1   23 Jeremy Downs.....  1 0 0  0-0   +1

14 Vin Hellemeyer...  0 0 0  0-0    0   27 Mike Knoepfli....  1 0 0  0-0    0

16 Nate Jackson.....  0 0 0  0-0    0   14 Cam Abbott.......  1 0 0  0-0    0

17 Bill LeClerc.....  0 0 0  1-2    0   18 Mike Iggulden....  0 0 0  0-0    0

24 Matthew Craig....  0 0 0  0-0   -1   29 Byron Bitz.......  0 0 0  0-0    0

34 Josh Gartner.....  0 0 0  0-0   -1    2 Ryan O'Byrne.....  0 0 0  0-0   +1







 

Anybody having audio dropout problems with te i2sports feed?

Nothing more then usual - better then last night.

1-1

GOAL by YALE Christian Jensen, Assist by Joe Callahan

Poor Adam Wodon's alone in the booth tonight. At least there's been plenty of action for him to talk about through two!

from USCHO
RPI 1, Brown 0 (2nd Prd )
D'mouth 3, Clksn. 0 (2nd Prd )
Pr'ton 1, Colg. 3 (2nd Prd

14:00 left in the 3rd. still 1-1

RPI 2, Brown 1 mid third.

Correction, RPI up 2-0 over Brown mid third.

Listening via the Yale feed, I finally heard diiiiiiieeeeeee. Yuck!

b'ball: Penn 41 Cornell 20 1:52 to go in first

8:10 to go 1-1

Brown lost 3-0 to RPI.

SCORE 2-1!!!!

Score!

GOOOAAAAALLLLL!!!

3:39 left

Let's hold on now!

[16:21] GOAL by CORNELL Mitch Carefoot, Assist by Ben Wallace and Mike Knoepfli

Did I mention that I hate Brown because I'm still on their waiting list after 25 years??? OK, I'm bitter.

Carefoot, from Wallace and Knopfli

Hold on, hold on, hold on...

0:50 left. Timeout Ylae

Empty Yale net...20 ticks to go...

offsides Yale. empty net. :20 left

4 point weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 POINT WEEKEND

Dan '81, you're a half second ahead of me!



Post Edited (02-14-04 21:14)

Final stats, unofficial, of course...nice to see the Red pick up 4 points in the ECAC.

Goals  1  2  3  Tot  Faceoff            Shots  1  2  3  Tot  P-Plays
YALE   0  1  0 -  1    29               YALE   2  6  6 - 14    0-1
CORN   1  0  1 -  2    37               CORN   9  6 15 - 30    0-3

Yale                 Sv GA   Min        Cornell              Sv GA   Min
34 Josh Gartner..... 28  2 59:24        31 David McKee...... 13  1 59:56
TM TEAM.............  0  0 00:36        TM TEAM.............  0  0 00:04

Yale                 Sh G A P-Min +/-   Cornell              Sh G A P-Min +/-
11 Ryan Steeves.....  3 0 0  0-0   -2   27 Mike Knoepfli....  4 0 1  1-2   +1
44 Christian Jensen.  2 1 0  0-0   +1   28 Shane Hynes......  4 0 1  0-0   +1
 8 Zachary Mayer....  2 0 0  0-0    0   24 Matt Moulson.....  3 0 1  0-0   +1
19 Brad Mills.......  2 0 0  0-0   +1   11 Mitch Carefoot...  2 1 0  0-0   +1
13 Joe Zappala......  1 0 0  0-0   -2    8 Ryan Vesce.......  2 1 0  0-0   +1
 3 Mike Grobe.......  1 0 0  0-0   +1    2 Ryan O'Byrne.....  2 0 0  0-0    0
 5 Shawn Mole.......  1 0 0  0-0   -1   15 Daniel Pegoraro..  2 0 0  0-0   -1
27 Mike Klema.......  1 0 0  0-0    0   29 Byron Bitz.......  2 0 0  0-0    0
 9 Robert Burns.....  1 0 0  0-0    0   10 Mark McCutcheon..  2 0 0  0-0    0
 7 Joe Callahan.....  0 0 1  0-0   +1   12 Ben Wallace......  1 0 1  0-0   +1
24 Matthew Craig....  0 0 0  0-0   -1   16 Greg Hornby......  1 0 0  0-0   -1
17 Bill LeClerc.....  0 0 0  1-2   -1    7 Charlie Cook.....  1 0 0  0-0   +1
16 Nate Jackson.....  0 0 0  0-0    0   14 Cam Abbott.......  1 0 0  0-0   -1
14 Vin Hellemeyer...  0 0 0  0-0   +1   23 Jeremy Downs.....  1 0 0  0-0    0
12 Nate Murphy......  0 0 0  2-4    0    5 Jon Gleed........  1 0 0  0-0    0

too bad Penn's tearing the basketball team a new one.



Post Edited (02-14-04 21:18)

Just to set the record straight RPI beat Brown 4-0, not 3-0.

first 4pt weekend at lynah this season.
it's long time overdue.

Splendid!! What a beautiful weekend. Very impressive.
And the first goal.... spectacular!!
And Mr.Wontbendover played a good game too.. gotta give him his props.

hah whose mr.wontbendover

Great game tonight, and obviously it was great to finally have a home four-point weekend. So, some thoughts:

- Vesce scored one goal in each game this weekend, and he was still playing a fair amount throughout both games. Yeah, I think he's back for real now.
- I didn't hear the radio cast, so I don't know who the stars of the game were, but if it were up to me, the first would go to Jeremy Downs. His defense was key to keeping Yale's SOG total so low.
- Can somebody give me some detail on the second Cornell goal? It really came out of nowhere to me so I have no idea how it happened.
- McKee was solid as usual, though it irks me that he's only faced a total of 38 shots in the last three games. I just don't want McKee going soft at the wrong moment; RPI's offense will likely not be that easy to get past.
- I was fearful that the dramatically fast play in the first period would wear down the Cornell players, and would cause them to lose unless they could sit on a big lead. To an extent, I was right that it did slow them down, but luckly Cornell's forecheck slowed Yale down as well, so it all evened out.
- Without Annoying Phone Number Guy in attendance, I was actually able to get in some really good ribs on Gartner. My two moments of gold: (1) (after the crowd called him short repeatedly) "Put on a few inches! And get taller too!!!" (2) (near the end of the 2nd, after the crowd had done a great job mocking Gartner for a while) "We can keep this up all night! But I heard you can't keep ANYTHING up all night!" Yeah, it was all in the name of Valentine's Day.
- Anyone know why Chris Abbott didn't play tonight?

HockeyGuy4 wrote:

hah whose mr.wontbendover

That would be Yale goalie Josh Gartner, who wouldn't bend over like the crowd was telling him to do at one point, so we kept chanting "Bend over! Bend over!" It went on for a minute or two before he finally did so. I love it when the other goalies actually listen to what we're saying.

Helllo from John Beaber's party get together.

RBL

LoL i know, dontcha just love it when we "get in their heads"

One thing id like to point out: does anyone else realize that cornells strategy of play seems to be: going hard in the first period, go easy in the second period, and going hard again in the third period?

As for your question about the second goal: The Yale defenseman inanely coughed the puck right up the center of the ice throught the slot, but somehow it got past Knoepfli and another forward who I couldn't make out. It came all the way to Wallace at the point, and he shot it; Gartner made a good save and the puck went behind to Carefoot. Carefoot immediately banked it off the back of Gartner's pad from behind the goal line. I'm not sure if it was intentional (no replay) but I'd say it probably was.

I hope that helps!

Thanks Mike!

So the results of the top 15 from this week:

Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   


 1 Boston College       (36)    20-3-4  596     W, W, W (BU, Mass x2)    


 2 North Dakota          (4)    19-5-3  544     L, W (Colorado College)     


 3 Maine                        20-6-2  504     W, T (Northeastern)     


 4 Minnesota                    18-9-3  465     L, L (UMD)     


 5 Michigan                     19-8-1  414     W, W (Miami)     


 6 Minnesota-Duluth             18-8-3  400     W, W (Minnesota)     


 7 Wisconsin                    17-9-6  376     idle     


 8 Miami                        18-9-3  313     L, L (Michigan)     


 9 St. Cloud State              16-9-3  274     W, W (Bemidji State)


10 New Hampshire               16-10-3  190     T, T (Mass-Lowell)  


11 Brown                        14-5-4  185     T, L (Union, RPI)    


12 Denver                      16-10-4  170     W, W (Mankato)


13 Massachusetts                16-6-5  144     L, L (Boston College)


14 Ohio State                  17-13-0   71     W, W (Nebraska-Omaha)


15 Colgate                      15-8-5   55     L, W (Yale, Princeton)






(EDIT: Changed Colgate from W, W to L, W)







Post Edited (02-15-04 01:19)
 

Colgate lost to Yale.

FYI ... Dwyer didn't cough the puck up the middle. ... He coughed it up to Carefoot, who put it in the middle. I think. I could be wrong. ... Then ... Carefoot says it wasn't intentional to bank it off the pads. Was trying to get it to Knoepfli in front.

Finally ... Downs was our No. 2 star. Hynes No. 3. Carefoot No. 1.

[Q]Carefoot immediately banked it off the back of Gartner's pad from behind the goal line. I'm not sure if it was intentional (no replay) but I'd say it probably was. [/Q]
From Adam W's USCHO recap: [www.uscho.com]

[Q]"I knew Knoepfli would be going to the net hard, so I just tried to get out to him and get a break," Carefoot said.[/Q]
Sounds like an attempted pass that Gartner happened to get in the way of.

Coach Taylor said: "...the goal we allowed was a stinker. We gave it away. And I don't think Josh played it very well."
Basically saying that it was indeed all his fault!

Besides Mike Schafer and Joe Marsh, there's no coach in the league that I respect more than Tim Taylor (I reserve judgement on Clarkson's George Roll until he gets a few years experience). He runs a program as it ought to be run, and this Yale team has come a LONG way since the 6-2 game we saw in November. However, it has been a very strange season overall for Yale. They remain atop the league in team offense by a healthy margin, yet are dead last in team defense. They've been outscored by 10 goals in-league, yet still had a chance to overtake the Red in the standings tonight. I just feel that it's a pretty deceptive 20 points they've earned, and I can't really put my finger on why I feel that other than the GA numbers. As nice as a turn-around Yale has made this season after a dreadful 1-4-0 start, I still fear Colgate and RPI as the best "surprise" teams this year. But maybe that's obvious.

Solid effort by everyone this week, the team looks so much better than it did in January. Good pressure on both sides of the ice, cleaner passing and playmaking. Hynes, Downs, and Cam all had particularly great weekends, and Gleed is definitely back to the level he was at before his injury in December. The Hynes-Moulson-Bitz line is starting to look like something special.

Also, kudos to a well reffed weekend. It doesn't get said often here, but Dunn and Murphy were great this weekend.



Post Edited (02-15-04 04:00)

But he did "stand up straight" (stand up straight, stand up straight....) - he was definitely listening.

Thoughts on this game.

1) This was the best I've seen Cornell play all year. Yale played a great up tempo game but the Red stayed with them, outshooting them badly. This is exactly the sort of clutch performance they need to go far in the post-season.

2) Yale's fun to watch. Nice balance of indidvidual effort and skill and team ethic.

3) Jensen (#44) is very talented and scary. Though he did get the one goal the Red managed to keep him in check. Of course, keeping the other leading scorers completely off the board was the difference in the game. A great job by the good guys.

4) Carefoot's goal wasn't pretty, but we've lost our share of games over the years on mishandled pucks or blind passes, and it was nice to put this one in the W column.

5) Even without the goal, Carefoot was very impressive in this game. He and O'Byrne are improving dramatically and have become genuine contributors. They both got a lot of ice time in important situations and they both came through.

Can't say enough about this game -- it put the team in position where a solid finish in the last two weekends will give them a very nice seed in the tourny.



Post Edited (02-16-04 14:07)